images of woven silk with words of motto woven in
Words:
    
Printed at top of card:-
 
With the Compliments of
 
  
woven on silk:-
 
  
 
 
THERE'S
PLENTY OF BUSINESS
ABOUT.
 
  
 
WHEN YOU HEAR ANYBODY
 
 
COMPLAINING
 
 
THAT TIMES ARE THE
 
 
DEVIL FOR TRADE
 
 
WHILE HE TAKES UP YOUR TIME
 
 
IN EXPLAINING
 
 
HOW EASY LOSSES ARE MADE.
 
 
JUST TELL HIM TO TAKE OFF
 
 
THE SACKCLOTH
 
 
AND PUT ON HIS HAT
 
 
AND COME OUT
 
 
YOU CAN VERY SOON PROVE
 
 
ONCE YOU GET ON THE MOVE
 
 
THAT THERE'S PLENTY
 
 
OF BUSINESS ABOUT.
 
  
Printed at bottom of card:-
 
Woven in Silk.
 
P.T.O.               W. H. GRANT & CO., COVENTRY.
  

There's plenty of business about

as 1932 Calendar

Reference Number:- Godden Number:- Grant Catalogue Number:-
gt 232 1041 unknown
 
Size:
Card-mount:
Lift up flap: 15.2cm deep by 8.9cm wide
Overall card: cm deep by cm wide

silk:
11.4cm high by 6.4cm wide

Comments:

by Geoffrey Godden:
CALENDARS
Various woven calendars were made in different years - many mounted on postcards from the early 1900s onwards, others with Christmas or New Year greetings printed on the reverse side.

Several silks were incorporated in the covers or mounts of calendars (the calendar part being printed on paper in the normal manner) and these cannot be classed as woven calendars. Nevertheless, the finest post-war Grant silk pictures have been especially woven to enhance these standard calendars.

THERE'S PLENTY OF BUSINESS ABOUT.
Normally mounted in postcard or greeting-card form, and also issued as a Grant Company calendar in 1932.

Other comments:
Godden records this silk, and recites the verse in full.

On this calendar, the central flap containing the silk, lifted up to reveal the 1932 calendar, together with an amusing motto.

The image above is only of the lift up flap, containing the silk, and the rough edge can be seen at the top where it has been torn from the backing card. The rest of the card, and associated calendar, is missing.
The image below is of the reverse of this flap, and as can be seen, has printed advertising for GRANT.

image of reverse of the lift up flap
reverse of the lift up flap which contains the actual woven silk, as shown above.

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